What Spins the Wheel: Leadership Lessons from Our Race for Hope - Hardcover

Forkas, Len

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0996096914 ISBN 13: 9780996096911

Publisher: Hopecam, 2014

Synopsis

When entrepreneur Len Forkas learned that his nine-year-old son had leukemia, his own life changed forever. In 2003, Len founded Hopecam, a nonprofit that uses technology to connect young cancer patients with their friends at school. Ten years later, Len's fight against childhood cancer rose to a new level. He qualified as a solo competitor in Race Across America, a 3,000-mile bicycle race that traverses scorching deserts and 11,000-foot mountain elevations. As Len fought to finish the race in just 12 days, an all-volunteer crew supported him around the clock. What Spins the Wheel is a true story about fatherhood and fortitude, business grit and growth - and the power of combining the right mission with the right team to help others.

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About the Author

Len Forkas is the founder of Milestone Communications, a Reston, Virginia-based company that owns and develops wireless towers in the mid-Atlantic region. Before forming Milestone in 2000, Len spent 15 years in the commercial real estate industry and held management positions at Bank of America, Weyerhaeuser Real Estate, and Oxford Development Company. Len earned an MBA from The American University and graduated from the College of Architecture at Ball State University. He lives with his family in the Washington, D.C. area. To contact Len, please email him at len@hopecam.org.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hopecam
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996096914
• ISBN 13: 9780996096911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288